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Peer reviewedGuenther, Rebecca S. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2003
Focuses on the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) developed by the Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office. Discuses reasons for MODS development; advantages of MODS; features of MODS; prospective uses for MODS; relationship with MARC and MARCXML; comparison with Dublin Core element set; and experimentation with…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Management, Information Processing, Information Technology
Medeiros, Norm – Online, 1999
Describes the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, an international standard for describing information resources being used to describe Internet resources. Discusses the changing nature of MARC, Dublin core versus MARC for cataloging records, Dublin Core in the library world, and the OCLC-sponsored CORC (Cooperative Online Resources Catalog) project.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Internet, Library Catalogs, Library Cooperation
Peer reviewedCovert, Kay – Online Information Review, 2001
Describes OCLC's CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Catalog) service. As a state-of-the-art Web-based metadata creation system, CORC is optimized for creating bibliographic records and pathfinders for electronic resources. Discusses how libraries are using CORC in technical services, public services, and collection development and explains the…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Library Collection Development, Library Cooperation
Download full textCouncil on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC. – 2002
The United States Congress in December 2000 appropriated funds to the Library of Congress (LC) to spearhead an effort to develop a national strategy for the preservation of digital information. LC staff scheduled a series of conversations with representatives from the technology, business, entertainment, academic, legal, archival, and library…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Text, Information Policy, Information Sources
Peer reviewedHodges, Doug; Lunau, Carrol D. – Library Hi Tech, 1999
Incorporated in the National Library of Canada's (NLC) digital library initiatives are projects relating to digitization, collecting Canadian networked electronic publications, development of virtual catalogs, metadata creation, and preservation of digital resources. Issues relating to collaboration, access to digital collections and databases,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Publishing, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
Bowman, Mic; Camargo, Bill – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Examines file sharing within corporations that use wide-area, distributed file systems. Applications and user interactions strongly suggest that the addition of services typically associated with digital libraries (content-based file location, strongly typed objects, representation of complex relationships between documents, and extrinsic…
Descriptors: Classification, Corporations, Electronic Libraries, Information Networks
Tennant, Roy – Library Journal, 1998
Discusses how collections in the digital library, instead of traditional cataloging, call for metadata, structured information about information. Describes three categories of metadata information about digital resources: descriptive, structural, and administrative. Examines emerging standards for digital-library classification. (AEF)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Classification, Electronic Libraries
Welsh, Sue – 1996
The growth in the size of the Internet has resulted in much effort being spent on indexing its contents. The most popular solutions are created by automatic methods, and although offering impressive coverage, they are disappointing where precision of meaning is required. Alternative services created by human beings arrange and index resources…
Descriptors: Classification, Content Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Pattie, Ling-yuh W., Ed.; Cox, Bonnie Jean, Ed. – 1996
This book is a baseline guide for professionals and library school students on issues that concern the selection and bibliographic control of electronic resources, from both conceptual and pragmatic standpoints. The book includes the following articles: (1) "Foreward" (Lois Mai Chan); (2) "Introduction" (Ling-yuh W. (Miko)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records
